Medical Negligence
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The doctors’ regulator has said there was “a state of unease within the medical profession across the UK that risks affecting patients as well as doctors”. Conservative MP Dr Dan...
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Pay-outs to maternity patients in East Anglia as a result of bad care has doubled in the last ten years – as the government proposes a new compensation scheme to...
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An Ipswich family claims a hospital ‘abandoned’ their daughter after she was given electric shock treatment following cardiac arrest, and that the investigation into her subsequent brain injury ‘failed at...
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I have written before about the serious shortcomings in the provision for mental illness, particularly locally. But I make no apology for returning to it again. In particular, I want...
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Sharon Allison has been campaigning for improvements in mental health care, particularly in East Anglia, for several years and is working closely with families whose tragic stories about failure in...
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Unacceptably short 15 minute home care visits to elderly and disabled people are still plaguing the care system in England. Research by Unison has found “distressing” cases of care being...
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Proposed changes to the law mean families who lose a child or an elderly parent through hospital negligence will have no means of redress, according to a bereaved Kesgrave couple....
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New figures suggest waiting times in A&E departments across the UK are worsening as pressures grow in hospitals. The data, collected by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, showed 88%...
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Thousands of people in England are dying from bowel cancer because their disease is not being spotted early enough, a charity has warned. Beating Bowel Cancer found wide variation within...
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NHS England’s Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Jane Cummings has praised the “Hello My Name Is…” campaign started by terminally ill Dr Kate Granger. The CNO spoke out as it was...
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Addenbrooke’s Hospital is at the heart of a legal challenge over their ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ policy. The family of Janet Tracey, who died in March 2011 are seeking a national...
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Up to two million people in England could be eligible for weight loss surgery, experts say. Bariatric surgery, such as the fitting of gastric bands, can cut the risk of...
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